What should be done is let me decide to opt out of SS right now and I'm within 10 to 15 years of retirement. Let people opt out with a lump sum payment based on the years you paid into this scam. If you opt out then SS is no longer stolen from your paycheck. I'll be happy to recoup 60% of what I've paid in over the years to get the government out of my wallet and gets me out of this ponzi scheme.

Only about 5% of Medicare cuts will be offset with fraud and waste corrections.

My wife is a therapist mostly for the elderly and you can not imagine how strict the Medicare fraud protections are. She can lose her entire career for sloppy paperwork, she can go to prison and pay 6 figure fines for the most minor of offenses (say cutting out 10 minutes early from a therapy session).

I promise you the corporate world has much more waste and fraud, like people sitting in a cubicle and using a work computer for posting on CF.com!

Trump has to pay for his tax cuts for the wealthy by removing benefits from the elderly, the poor, and the middle class. It's hard to imagine that anyone worth less than 3-5 million would agree with the Trump tax plans and budgets, but here we are.

if you are depending on only SS for retirement you are foolish better have a good 401k. as far as Medicare it's ok but leaves a lot to be desired. at my age 79, We depend on wife & my investments. Also we pay income tax on ss.

And, there better be a Grandfather Clause because paying into this **** nearly my whole life only to be cut back on makes people ******* snap.

It's easy for a Billionairre to do this when it has ZERO EFFECT on his ***.

****** should focus on welfare and illegal immigration issues first and foremost.

I started paying into SS when I was 13 and paid until I was 67. The *** holes in the Senate raided the fund and gave IOUs. Obozo changed the designation from benefits to entitlements. They are not entitlements, we paid into the fund, it got jacked and now the scum bag politicians think they can cut the benefits.
If Trump does this he can kiss 2020 goodbye.

I thought all three of these, MC, MCD, and SS, were entitlement spending. If you meet qualifications, then you get the $ benefit. A "budget" for entitlements is what one might forecast to be paid out. "Cutting" a budget may have no direct effect on one's entitlement. One (or an affected agency) would have to also change the qualifications to decrease the level of entitlement. That may or may not happen.

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You need to keep up with what has happened. SS was never an entitlement. It is paid into. The *** hole Obozo changed it from being a benefit to an entitlement.
Entitlements are for the give me bunch, SS was and is paid into( a requirement). Show me a welfare slug or a recipient of any entitlement that has paid into any fund so as to receive a stipend.

Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.

"President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget breaks one of his biggest campaign promises to voters: that he would leave Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare untouched.

“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.

Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid — instead allocating $1.2 trillion in a block-grant program to states — $25 billion less on Social Security, and $845 billion less on Medicare (some of that is reclassified to a different department). Their intentions are to cut benefits under Medicaid and Social Security."

You quoted Trump saying he would not cut these programs.
Where is the quote saying he will?

I guess some of the lefties didn't read Trumps plan for cutting cost. Apparently the idea of taking on fraud, cutting waste and misuse of taxpayer dollars, is offensive to them.

The idea that $25B of spending over 10 years somehow relates to benefit cuts is hilarious. $2.5B a year of the SS program is barely chump change,and more of a rounding error. It clearly has to be intended as savings in the administration of the program. Like you say, it is the perennial bs about cutting F,W & A.

Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.

"President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget breaks one of his biggest campaign promises to voters: that he would leave Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare untouched.

“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.

Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid — instead allocating $1.2 trillion in a block-grant program to states — $25 billion less on Social Security, and $845 billion less on Medicare (some of that is reclassified to a different department). Their intentions are to cut benefits under Medicaid and Social Security."

Non of this matters since according to AOC an her minions we are all going to get a living wage, free Medicare and a bunch of other benefits.

Only about 5% of Medicare cuts will be offset with fraud and waste corrections.

My wife is a therapist mostly for the elderly and you can not imagine how strict the Medicare fraud protections are. She can lose her entire career for sloppy paperwork, she can go to prison and pay 6 figure fines for the most minor of offenses (say cutting out 10 minutes early from a therapy session).

I promise you the corporate world has much more waste and fraud, like people sitting in a cubicle and using a work computer for posting on CF.com!

Trump has to pay for his tax cuts for the wealthy by removing benefits from the elderly, the poor, and the middle class. It's hard to imagine that anyone worth less than 3-5 million would agree with the Trump tax plans and budgets, but here we are.